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Stage-trained character player whose dark, angular features pegged him as assorted Indian, Latino and Oriental heavies and pyschopaths from the early 1950s. Silva was memorable as the high-kicking assassin in the political thriller, "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), and as the sadistic lead in "Johnny Cool" (1963).

Filmography

The Italian Connection - ( Dave / 2003 / Released / AIP )
Ocean's Eleven - ( Himself / 2001 / Released / )
Ocean's Eleven - ( / 2001 / Released / )
Ghost Dog: the Way of the Samurai - ( Ray Vargo / 2000 / Released / JVC Entertainment Inc )
Unconditional Love (Horne Entertainment) - ( Ted Markham / 1999 / Released / )
The Prince - ( / 1997 / Released / )
Mad Dog Time - ( Sleepy Joe Carlisle / 1996 / Released / )
Possessed By the Night - ( Scott Linsey / 1994 / Released / )
South Beach - ( Santiago / 1994 / Released / )
The Harvest - ( Detective Topo / 1993 / Released / )
Three Days to a Kill - ( Drug Lord Carlo Perez / 1991 / Released / 21st Century Entertainment Productions )
Dick Tracy - ( Influence / 1990 / Released / Touchstone Films )
Fists of Steel - ( Shogi / 1989 / Released / )
Trained to Kill - ( Ace Duran / 1989 / Released / )
Above the Law - ( Zagon / 1988 / Released / )
Bulletproof - ( Colonel Kartiff / 1988 / Released / Columbia Pictures/Art Filmes )
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold - ( Agon / 1987 / Released / )
Amazon Women on the Moon - ( Henry Silva / 1987 / Released / )
Code of Silence - ( Luis Comacho / 1985 / Released / Thorn EMI )
The Killer Instinct - ( / 1985 / Released / Pan-Canadian Film Distributors )
Cannonball Run II - ( Slim / 1984 / Released / Miracle Films Ltd (United Kingdom) )
Escape From the Bronx - ( Wangler / 1984 / Released / Media Home Entertainment )
Lust in the Dust - ( Bernardo / 1984 / Released / Columbia-EMI-Warner )
The Manhunt - ( Prison Boss / 1984 / Released / Samuel Goldwyn Company )
Chained Heat - ( Lester / 1983 / Released / Jensen Farley Pictures Inc )
Le Marginal - ( / 1983 / Released / Roissy Films )
The Violent Breed - ( Kirk Cooper / 1983 / Released / Cannon Releasing )
Megaforce - ( Guerera / 1982 / Released / )
Wrong Is Right - ( Rafeeq / 1982 / Released / )
Sharky's Machine - ( Billy Score / 1981 / Released / )
Trapped - ( Henry Chatwill / 1981 / Released / )
Alligator - ( Colonel Brock / 1980 / Released / )
Milano Odia: La Polizia non Puo' Sparare - ( Inspector Walter Grandi / 1980 / Released / Joseph Brenner Associates )
Virus - ( Garland / 1980 / Released / Haruki Kadokawa Productions )
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - ( "Killer" Kane / 1979 / Released / )
Love and Bullets - ( Vittorio Faroni / 1979 / Released / )
Thirst - ( Dr Gauss / 1979 / Released / Greater Union Distributors )
Shoot - ( Zeke Springer / 1976 / Released / Avco Embassy Film )
Les Hommes - ( Everett / 1973 / Released / )
Man and Boy - ( Caine / 1972 / Released / Levitt-Pickman )
The Animals - ( Chatto / 1971 / Released / Levitt-Pickman )
Assassination - ( John Chandler/Philip Chandler / 1969 / Released / Ben Barry & Associates )
Matchless - ( Hank Norris / 1966 / Released / United Artists Pictures Inc. )
The Plainsman - ( Crazy Knife / 1966 / Released / Universal )
The Reward - ( Joaquin / 1965 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
The Secret Invasion - ( John Durrell / 1964 / Released / )
A Gathering of Eagles - ( Col Garcia / 1963 / Released / Universal )
Johnny Cool - ( Johnny Cool/Giordano / 1963 / Released / )
Sergeants 3 - ( Mountain Hawk / 1962 / Released / )
The Manchurian Candidate - ( Chunjin / 1962 / Released / )
Cinderfella - ( Maximilian / 1960 / Released / )
Ocean's Eleven - ( Roger Carneal / 1960 / Released / )
Green Mansions - ( Kua-Ko / 1959 / Released / )
The Jayhawkers - ( Lordan / 1959 / Released / )
Ride a Crooked Trail - ( Sam Teeler / 1958 / Released / Universal )
The Bravados - ( Lujan / 1958 / Released / )
The Law and Jake Wade - ( Rennie / 1958 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
A Hatful of Rain - ( Mother / 1957 / Released / )
The Tall T - ( Chink / 1957 / Released / )
Crowded Paradise - ( / 1956 / Released / Tudor Pictures )
Viva Zapata! - ( Hernandez / 1952 / Released / )
TV Credits
Justice ( 2000 / Released ): Actor
Buddy Faro ( 1998 / Released ): Actor
Happy ( 1983 / Released ): Actor
Contract on Cherry Street ( 1977 / Released ): Actor
Drive Hard, Drive Fast ( 1973 / Released ): Actor
Black Noon ( 1971 / Released ): Actor
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ( Released ): Actor
Full Biography (Back to top)

Stage-trained character player whose dark, angular features pegged him as assorted Indian, Latino and Oriental heavies and pyschopaths from the early 1950s. Silva was memorable as the high-kicking assassin in the political thriller, "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), and as the sadistic lead in "Johnny Cool" (1963).

Profession(s):
Actor, delivery boy, longshoreman
Sometimes Credited As:
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Family
wife:Ruth Earle

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Education
Group Theater New York, New York
Actors Studio New York, New York
Milestones (Back to top)
2000 Played an aging gangster in "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai"
2000 Acted in "Justice" (aired on Cinemax)
1977 Acted alongside Frank Sinatra in the NBC TV-movie "Contract on Cherry Street"
1971 Had featured role in the CBS movie "Black Noon"
1965 Played the title role in "The Return of Mr. Moto"
1963 Had title role of gangster "Johnny Cool"
1963 Made guest appearance in the unsold ABC pilot "Weapons Man"
1962 Appeared as Laurence Harvey's "houseboy" in "The Manchurian Candidate"; Sinatra was also in the cast
1962 Acted with Sinatra in "Sargeants 3"
1960 Played recurring role of gangster Little Charlie on "The Untouchables" (ABC)
1960 First onscreen teaming with Frank Sinatra in "Ocean's Eleven"
1957 Portrayed the drug pusher 'Mother' in "A Hatful of Rain"
1957 Cast as a malicious henchman to Richard Boone in "The Tall T"
1952 First major film credit in "Viva Zapata!"
Worked in Italy for several years on films like "Un Fiume di dollari/The Hills Run Red" (1966) and "Probability Zero" (1968)


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